New Wagon seating plan?

you guys crack me up!!
try not make a mess while i'm gone!!...
keep your feet off the coffee table...!
...be good ya brats!!
cya in a day or 2

Hope Santy is good to ya all

 

There, now I feel better. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and bingo! Take care.

 

Stormin' Like the poem!!!!!

REV I don't know how to behave.

Onward Mousekteers

 

Yeah, the Cat's away, so we can play!

I'm gonna get busy shortly with the Turkey (stuffing, stringing, etc.) It's my job, according Herself. So I may be away for awhile.

When I was a teen (15-16), I was studying French, Latin and Greek, and already had schooling in the English school system here, but in Quebec, you were allowed options in primary school. They had lots of religious ones, since it was a Catholic school, but there was enough with the mandatory one. So I took languages and classic authours. Loved French Poetry. And I loved the 3 Musketeers. One of the stories from the same authour was Cyrano de Bergerac. He was drunk, a street fighter, a lover, a romantic swashbuckler.

Anyway he swooned his ladies with poems. Well, being a hormone-enriched teenager, I figured I'd give it a try. Oh yes! It works. Then I branched out into writing my science papers in poems. She was a hottie, the science teacher, but she was anal-ytical. So I gave up. I regret that, 'cause I really enjoyed being a cunning linguist, figuratively speaking. Wish I had stuck with it more. Something to look forward to, after all my other projects.

 

Hey Norm,
I just had to hit print..It will be cut out, and hung on my fridge. Lots of wagons in my family, what a wonderful little poem.

Nick

 

One turkey done!

I was looking at how wide and deep that 1956 Desoto Wagon's interior to exterior size and recall that they weren't as wide as the later models, but you could still get a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood in:

Here's a '59 chev:



The '56 Desoto inside:



And outside:



And a wooden finish like this:



The trick is building the cargo surface above the wheel wells. So any seat's footwells would be deeper in the floors behind the axle. Maybe like the LTD's with the rear seats facing the rear quarter windows. I just can't see anyone wanting to look to the rear on a long trip, but I want the wider inside width without making the outside of the car into a big-a$$ monster.

 

Good. I had to rescue RoadKing and myself from a severe wife thrashing with something less 'lurid', since our wives often are within view/hearing distance, and rose to the occasion!

It takes a lot of explanation in Spanish to my wife about why I'm laughing so hard I can't speak or come out with some guffaw about something posted, so this was like a verbal Crossover Utility Vehicle, between wagons and those that wish they were!

By the way, it took me a while to find out that the top menus are contextual. When you're in a thread (not editing), you can use the Thread Tools menu, and click the 'Show Printable Version' and it takes out some superfluous detail.

 

I hijacked my own thread again! Like the Rev said, I've gotta keep my feet of the coffee table! Sheesh! :banghead3:

 

Back to the seating plan. I'm thinking that with a custom-built vehicle, it would be a good thing to have some tools handy. I know most cars now have plastic liners in the sides, but a decent tool kit would need a better setup (anti-rattle, clipped in, flexible for changing to new ones, etc.) and not visible for thievery. Two choices: The fold-down seat backs or in the side-panels or both. Most rear wagon seats have hard/metal backs and thin backrests, but since its my gig, I could pad them up and just lay in a 2" recess under the back covers, and have easy access.

I have to check, but I'm pretty sure that there still are some vehicles with side tanks, and if it's legal (SAE), then I'd put some road-essentials (flares, folding snow shovel, tire wrench, etc.) between the tanls and the side panels.

Any custom-built car is going to get a thorough search crossing the US/CDN/Mexican Border, and at least I'd have the tools handy to let them do it without wrecking the car.

When we came back to Canada, there was a few guys at this small rural crossing who were really peeving the Canadian Border officials. Back then, our guards were unarmed. But as luck would have it, they had a couple Sargeants from the Infantry to help with searches. They took the door panels off, the seats out, the air filter off, the tires and wheels apart to search their car. I mean a strip search of that Chevy Nova.

Meanwhile my wagon was loaded inside, on the roof, and a ton and half of home furnishings, pots and pans, all under a tarp. Never searched it. With Mexican plates on mine, and never got closer than the drug-sniffing dogs. So I know what can happen. I'd rather help than go through one of those.

At the end, the guards wouldn't lend them any tools to re-assemble the car. They gave them the phone number for a garage to tow that 'heap out of here'. Not their day.

 

Don't think I'd go this far. The tent is fine, but a demountable roof shell for a boat? Uh, nope! You'd be like a jack-in-the-box in a flat-bottom rig like that. And what kind of structure is under that tent so the roof doesn't warp? hmmm.

 

Most likely a piece of folding plywood.I don't see how a roof rack can hold a lot of weight.

 

Yes, I like the idea, of a rocking chair, or lawn chair, on the roof...


Nick

 

Too early for that.

 

OOPS!! I had not realized that...

 

You ever wonder why they never made a 'Lazy Girl' chair? I think a woman named the darn things 'Lazy Boy', so our wives could ride us ragged...